Pomona College View Book [pdf]

The phrase “best
Best of Both
WORLDS
THE COLLEGE AND THE CONSORTIUM
of both worlds” has become a
cliché, but at Pomona, it’s the simple truth. Our students have the advantages of a small school,
where class size averages 15 and professors teach every class, along with the opportunities
offered by a larger university setting of more than
7,000 students. The founding member of The
Claremont Colleges, Pomona is one of five
undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions
that make up this unique consortium. Unlike other
consortial arrangements, the campuses are contiguous,
and a walk of only a few minutes will take you from one
to another. Although each institution is autonomous,
academic calendars and registration procedures are
coordinated to make cross-enrollment easy.
Pomona students may supplement the College’s
already comprehensive curriculum by taking classes at
www.pomona.edu/admissions
any of The Claremont Colleges, including some courses at Claremont Graduate University.
With more than 2,000 courses available to them, students may choose from more than 230
English and literature courses, 140 mathematics courses or courses in any of 12 different
languages.
Intercollegiate majors are offered in Chicano/Latino, Black and Asian American studies.
Though mathematics is not an intercollegiate area of study, the curriculum is coordinated by
all of the colleges, giving students access to 60 mathematicians and 140 classes, including 100
upper-division or graduate-level classes, in what may be the most comprehensive program
available at any undergraduate college.
In most cases, cross-enrollment in
classes at another college is as simple as
enrolling in classes at Pomona.
Beginning with your second semester,
until the end of your sophomore year,
you can cross-enroll in one class per
term. After that, you can take up to
two courses per term at the other
colleges, subject principally to the
restrictions of your major. Because
there is such a wealth of options at
Pomona, students typically take only
eight to 10 percent of their courses at the other colleges.
But an expanded catalog of classes isn’t the only plus. A two-million volume library serves
all of the campuses, and the broad range of speakers’ series, guest lecturers, art exhibits, plays
and performances offered at the other colleges adds immeasurably to the academic
possibilities.
Joining Pomona as members of the Consortium are Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life
Sciences, Pitzer College and Scripps College. Other institutions that are located in Claremont
and more loosely affiliated with the Consortium are the Claremont School of Theology, the
Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.
Number of minutes of
walking required to reach
the farthest class at any of
The Claremont Colleges:
10 -15
Number of volumes in the
Honnold-Mudd Library:
more
than
2 million
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